Some of these nouns, for example staff, actually combine with plural verbs most of the time.

Some philosophers, notably of the Platonic school, contend that all nouns ( including abstract nouns ) refer to existent entities.

Some of these words are used both as nouns and as verbs.

Some mass nouns can be used in English in the plural to mean " more than one instance ( or example ) of a certain sort of entity "— for example, " Many cleaning agents today are technically not soaps, but detergents.

Some nouns have both a mass sense and a count sense ( for example, paper ).

Some quantifiers are specific to mass nouns ( e. g. an amount of ) or count nouns ( e. g. a number of, every ).

Some have even argued that the most basic of category distinctions, that of nouns and verbs, is unfounded, or not applicable to certain languages.

Some specific nouns are reduplicated to form collectives: เด ็ ก ( dek, child ) is often repeated as เด ็ กๆ ( dek dek ) to refer to a group of children.

Some ( very rare ) nouns change gender according to the way they are used: the words amour, délice (" love " and " delight, pleasure ") are masculine in singular and feminine in plural ; the word orgue (" organ ") is masculine, but when used emphatically in plural to refer to a church organ it becomes feminine ( les grandes orgues ); the plural name gens (" people ") changes gender in a very unusual way, depending on the adjectives that are used with it.

Some adjectives change position depending on their meaning, sometimes preceding their nouns and sometimes following them ; for example, ancien means " former " when it precedes its noun, but " ancient " when it follows it.

Some determiners can be used with both mass and count nouns, including " some ", " a lot ( of )", " no ".

Some languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, treat all nouns as mass nouns, and need to make use of a noun classifier to add numerals and other quantifiers.

Some proper nouns occur in plural form ( optionally or exclusively ), and then they refer to groups of entities considered as unique ( the Hendersons, The Azores, the Pleiades ).

** Some masculine singular nouns, e. g. syn → synu, dom → domu, bok → boku, brzuch → brzuchu, worek → worku *, nastrój → nastroju *, deszcz → deszczu, miś → misiu, koń → koniu, Poznań → Poznaniu, Wrocław → Wrocławiu, Bytom → Bytomiu ** In a few cases, a vowel change may occur, e. g. ó → o, or a vowel may be dropped.

** Some neuter singular nouns ending in-o, e. g. mleko → mleku, łóżko → łóżku, ucho → uchu

Some examples are forms of address ( such as " Hey guys " or " Dear Sirs ") and masculine nouns and pronouns ( such as ' mankind ', ' man ' or ' he ') to refer to both men and women.

Some such compound nouns have a corresponding phrasal verb but some do not, partly because of historical developments.

Some propose that classifier – noun pairings are based on innate semantic features of the noun ( for example, all " long " nouns take a certain classifier because of their inherent longness ), and others claim that they are motivated by analogy to more prototypical pairings ( for example, " dictionary " takes the same classifier as the more common word " book ").

Some nouns became associated with specific classifiers earlier than others, the earliest probably being nouns that signified culturally valued items such as horses and poems.

' Some see the word salat as a derivation of the root ' wasala ' ( defined as to connect / arrive ) and one of its corresponding nouns ' silah ', meaning connection.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Some weapons systems have become obsolescent while still in production, and some while still under development.

Some of these were obviously filling from interlobular branches of the bronchial arteries while others were filling from direct hilar branches following along the pleural surface.

Some liver cord cells contained vacuolated cytoplasm, while others had small amounts of brown hemosiderin pigment.

Some mediums speak in practical, down-to-earth terms, while others may stress the spiritual.

Some of their features are primitive while others are derived.

Some amphibian toxins can be lethal to humans while others have little effect.

Some authorities show it extending south to Antarctica, while others show it bounded at the 60 ° parallel by the Southern Ocean.

Some amateur astronomers use home-made radio telescopes, while others use radio telescopes that were originally built for astronomy research but have since been made available for use by amateurs.

Some sources state that At < sub > 2 </ sub > does not exist, or at least has never been observed, while other sources assert or imply its existence.

Some flowers are functionally staminate ( where a pistil may be present but has no ovules capable of being fertilized ) while others are functionally pistillate ( where stamens are present but their anthers do not produce viable pollen ).

Some axons can extend up to one meter or more while others stretch to as little as one millimeter ( inhibitory interneurons ).

Some tall cylinders are considered ceremonial vessels, while narrow-necked jars may have been used for liquids.

Some doctrines, however, do adhere to the Arminian foundation and, while minority views, are highlighted below.

Some are Video Relay Service ( VRS ) calls, while others are text calls.

Some ANACs are very regional or local in scope, while others are state -/ province-or area-code-wide: there appears to be no consistent national system for them.

Some Rabbis hold that it must have been carried off to Babylon, while others hold that it must have been hidden lest it be carried off into Babylon and never brought back.

) Some observers argue that, while academicians often perceive themselves as members of an elite, their influence is mostly imaginary: " Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Some of the ethnic groups that continued to influence the cuisine were here in prior years ; while others arrived more numerously during “ The Great Transatlantic Migration ( of 1870 — 1914 ) or other mass migrations.

Some scholars argue Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War, while others insist that he took inspiration from contemporary events like the destruction of Helike in 373 BC or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415 – 413 BC.

Some ancient writers viewed Atlantis as fiction while others believed it was real.

Some trophozoites enlage and become macrogamete while others divide repeatedly to form microgametes.

Some authors have speculated that Ælle may have led the Saxon forces at this battle, while others reject the idea out of hand.

Some were little more than stopgap solutions, mounting an anti-tank gun on a tracked vehicle to give mobility, while others were more sophisticated designs.